Master of Science in Health Informatics (MS)
School of Healthcare Business and Technology
Location: Online
Start Term: Fall, Spring
Leverage informatics, data analytics, and health technology to improve healthcare outcomes and patient care.
Informatics Enhances Professional Collaboration and Team-Based Care
Your Journey to an MS in Health Informatics
With the widespread adoption of electronic health records and other data collection methods, informatics represents the crossroads of technology, the use of data to improve specificity and quality, and data-driven decision-making. Perhaps most important, informatics provides critical support for interprofessional collaboration and communication.
In this flexible online program, you will learn to:
- interpret, evaluate, and act upon statutory, regulatory, and other compliance requirements to ensure ethical and equitable outcomes for patients, providers, and payers
- identify, explain, and use data to illustrate barriers to care and support the development of a health system that reflects and adequately serves constituents
- design, develop, and implement interfaces between clinical data and key constituents in clinical and managerial settings
- translate and interpret human interactions with and within healthcare systems by retrieving and analyzing health and patient-experience data
- drive opportunities to expand team-based and distributed decision-making with informatics, data retrieval, critical analysis, and display
- practice interdisciplinary and collaborative leadership in seeking and developing innovative and entrepreneurial solutions to complex challenges utilizing informatics, data science, and technology
The Future of Healthcare is Interdisciplinary
MCPHS is a Strategic Hub for Learning Informatics
We have the resources, expertise, and professional networks to provide the highest quality educational experience in informatics.
MCPHS Community Voices
The lived experiences of MCPHS students, partners, faculty, and alumni tell an eloquent story. They illustrate just how our student-centered, teaching-first approach keeps us in the top tier of the country’s “most transformative colleges.” (Money magazine 2020).
Dr. Michael Spooner
| Dean, School of Healthcare Business and Technology“Health informatics is about how we can use data, informatics, and analysis to bring about technological change in the system delivering care. That includes systems thinking, so looking at how a change in one area has a downstream effect and using informatics to solve problems in very complex and highly regulated environments.”
Emergency response expert James Goss on pandemic efforts
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